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The
Wolf-Oppenheimer Collection provides details on the lives, both personal and
professional of more than three generations of members of the related Wolf and
Oppenheimer families. Most prominently represented among the collection's papers are
Hermann and Irene (née Oppenheimer) Wolf and their daughter Marlies (née Wolf) and
Eugene Plotnik, but the papers relate to many other family members as well. The
collection includes personal papers, official and educational documents, family
correspondence, photographs, family trees, articles as well as personal family
writing, and newspaper clippings.

Languages:

The
collection is in German and English, with a small amount of Hebrew.

Hermann David Wolf was born on April 28, 1880 in Alzey, Germany, the younger son of
the leather merchant Theodor Wolf of Alzey and his wife Caecilie Levintas. Theodor
Wolf owned a leather business, Wolf und Söhne, in Alzey. In addition to the family
business Theodor Wolf was a prominent member of the community. For twelve years he
was deputy mayor (erster Beigeordneter) of Alzey, as well as a long-time member of
the Chamber of Commerce and the county council of Alzey-Bingen, a member of the
leadership of the Jewish Community for forty years, and he was head of the Jewish
Charitable Society and the Jewish War Welfare Society. Theodor Wolf's eldest son was
Paul Jakob Wolf, who became a lawyer but died in April 1922 of leukemia. Hermann and
Paul had a sister, Ella, who became a physician who was killed in the euthanasia
center at Hadamar in 1941. Hermann Wolf studied law at the universities of Giessen,
Heidelberg, Munich and Berlin, and in 1908 was admitted to practice law in Germany.
He served as an officer in World War I. On March 9, 1920 he married Irene
Oppenheimer in Berlin. The couple moved to Darmstadt, where Hermann Wolf had
established a legal practice with his partner Dr. Mainzer.

Irene Oppenheimer was the daughter of Max and Mina (née Adler) Oppenheimer. Max
Oppenheimer began working for the leather firm Adler & Oppenheimer A.G. in
1883 in their Strasbourg (then Straßburg, Germany) branch as a travelling
representative for Württemberg until in October 1892 he was made head of the firm's
new branch in Berlin. Adler & Oppenheimer became a success partly because it
supplied leather to the German army during World War I. Irene had a younger sister,
Hilde (after marriage Hilde Menke), who lived in Jerusalem in the 1930s but later
joined her sister in the United States.

Irene and Hermann Wolf had three children in Darmstadt: Paul Theodor (born in 1922
and named for his recently deceased uncle), Ellen (Elfriede) Mathilde (born in
1924), and Marlies (Marie-Luise) Johanna (born in 1927). The family had servants as
well as a nanny (Haustochter), Lisbeth Hake, the daughter of Hermann Wolf's orderly
in World War I, who remained with the family for sixteen years until Nazi laws made
it impossible for her to stay in the household. The Wolf family was well-regarded in
Darmstadt, with Hermann Wolf working pro bono for needy clients and helping those in
need financially. In December 1936 Hermann and Irene Wolf traveled to New York,
where Hermann's cousin, Milton Opton, lived, to determine if the family should move
there. Upon their return to Germany they began the process of acquiring American
immigration visas.

The Wolf family was finally able to emigrate from Germany to the United States in
1939, traveling via London, where Paul Wolf had been attending boarding school. They
crossed the Atlantic on the R.M.S. Queen Mary, and
arrived in New York City on February 27, 1939. The family eventually settled into an
apartment on Riverside Drive in Manhattan. Mina Oppenheimer eventually joined them
there in 1941.

In fall 1945 Marlies Wolf began her studies at Barnard College in Manhattan, where
she majored in philosophy. In her sophomore year she met Eugene (called Gene)
Plotnik; several months later the couple began dating. They married in March 1950.
Eugene Plotnik wrote about television for The
Billboard, while Marlies worked as a copywriter. The Plotniks shared a
spacious apartment on Central Park West with Marlies's sister, Ellen Wolfson, and
her husband, son, and daughter. The Plotniks had two sons, whose surnames were
eventually changed to Potter. After nine years the Plotniks and the Wolfsons moved
to separate apartments near each other. Marlies Plotnik established a freelance
copywriting group and also later wrote a nationally syndicated column with Joy
Singer, called Women @ Work. Eugene Plotnik advanced in his career, eventually
becoming the creative director of the television department of King Features, which
produced cartoons such as Popeye and the animated
Beatles. The family later moved to Scarsdale, New
York, where the two families once again shared a large home.

Hermann Wolf died in New York City in 1951, his wife Irene in 1972. Their son Paul
passed away in 1992, daughter Ellen in 1998, and son-in-law Eugene Plotnik in
2008.

The Wolf-Oppenheimer Collection contains the papers of more than three generations of
members of the related Wolf and Oppenheimer families. Much of the focus of the
collection is on Hermann and Irene (née Oppenheimer) Wolf and Marlies (née Wolf) and
Eugene Plotnik, with the siblings and parents of Hermann and Irene Wolf also
prominent in the collection, as are the Wolf family ancestors. The collection
includes personal papers, official and educational documents, family correspondence,
photographs, family trees, articles as well as personal family writing, and
newspaper clippings.

The first series of this collection contains the papers of
Hermann and Irene Wolf. The series includes family correspondence, educational
records for Hermann Wolf, and many papers that relate to the family's lives in
Germany as well as their immigration to the United States. Most of the papers
pertain to the family in general or to Hermann Wolf in particular, including
material that pertains to his profession as a lawyer in Germany. Among the
emigration papers are lists of the family's possessions, which provide evidence of
the family's financial and societal standing. Related are photographs of members of
Hermann and Irene Wolf and their children, located in Series V, which holds the
majority of the collection's photographs.

Series II holds the papers of Marlies (née Wolf) and Eugene
(called Gene) Plotnik. About half the series consists of personal correspondence
between the couple. Notable as well is a book of short stories about Marlies,
written by her childhood nanny, that provides additional hints about the family's
life in Germany. This series also holds a small amount of papers that pertain to
Marlies's studies at Barnard College and later professional work. Most photographs
of Marlies and Eugene Plotnik will also be found in Series V, especially of Marlies
as a young girl but also of the couple together. Series IV contains research
material and family trees gathered by Marlies Plotnik, with much of these papers
pertaining to the family history, information about towns in which the family lived,
family graves, or memoirs written by family members.

Papers of the extended members of the Wolf, Oppenheimer, and related families are
located in Series III, with the bulk of the material
concerning the Wolf side of the family. Series III is divided into two subseries,
for the two branches of the family. The family papers in this series are varied,
including official documents such as birth, marriage, and death certificates, as
well as educational records from schools and universities, professional writings by
family members, articles written about family members or which mention them, family
correspondence, and papers relating to the finances or estate of family members.
Prominent among the many individuals whose papers comprise this series are the
lawyer Paul Wolf, Hermann Wolf's brother, and their sister Ella Wolf, a physician.
Some material is also available about Johanna Geissmar, Hermann Wolf's second cousin
once removed, who was also a physician: she was held in the Gurs concentration camp
and died in Auschwitz. Other papers relate to Hermann Wolf's parents, among several
others. Documents in Subseries 2 largely consist of papers of Irene Wolf's parents
and sister Hilde, accompanying family correspondence, and some family papers. Series
V holds photographs of most individuals whose papers are included in Series III.

Access Restrictions

Open to researchers.

Access Information

Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized
materials.

Use Restrictions

There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more
information, contact:Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15
West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011 email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org

Document Types:

A number of memoirs and books were removed to the LBI Memoir Collection or the
LBI Library. Photocopies of the title pages and any handwritten dedications on
these items were retained in the archival collection.

Three memoirs of family members have been removed to the LBI Memoir Collection:

We came to America : Memoirs of a refugee
child by Marlies Wolf Plotnik (ME 1513)

A memoir by an unrelated family with information on the Adler &
Oppenheimer firm was also removed to the LBI Memoir Collection: True Hearts: the Memoirs of Werner and Irmgard
Treuherz.

A book about family member Johanna Geissmar was removed to the LBI Library:
Meine Schwester starb in Auschwitz by Richard
Zahlten.

A published memoir by family member Berta Geissmar, with a handwritten dedication
by her, was removed to the LBI Library prior to the processing of the archival
collection: Musik im Schatten der Politik;
Erinnerungen(ML 429 G4 A34
1951).

Other books were also removed to the LBI Library from this archival collection,
including The Sonnets of Shakespeare, given by
Eugene Plotnik to Marlies Plotnik in 1981; Denkwürdiges
Darmstadt, given by the Wolf's former nanny Lisbeth Lang and her
husband; and Großherzog Ernst Ludwig und das Schicksal
seines Hauses by Max Wauer.

Several publications were removed from the archival collection to the LBI
Library. Three issues of Leipziger Zeitschrift für
Deutsches Recht with articles by or about Paul Jakob Wolf were
removed, with copies of his articles kept in the archival collection. Two issues
of the Barnard College undergraduate magazine, The
Bear, were also removed, with photocopies of the covers designed by
Marlies Wolf retained in the archival collection. One issue of Barnard, the Barnard College alumnae magazine, was
also removed, with a copy retained in the collection of the articles in it
written by Marlies and Eugene Plotnik. Other publications removed from the
collection include Juden-Deportation aus Darmstadt
1942/43 and WNYC Wavelength, with a
copy retained of its article on Kristallnacht.

Several items with audiovisual media were removed to the LBI Audiovisual
Collection. Included is an audiocassette from a visit of Lisbeth Lang to Marlies
Plotnik in 1969, with discussions of Lisbeth's memories of Marlies's childhood.
An accompanying letter from Marlies's childhood boyfriend was removed to folder
1/33. A second item is a DVD of a local television interview, conducted by the
town of Greenburgh, New York, of Marlies Wolf Plotnik about her life before and
after Hitler. The interview series was titled Lessons
Learned from the Holocaust: Then, Now, and Never Again. Finally,
there is an interview of Werner Treuherz about the history of the Adler
& Oppenheimer Leather Company; the original audiocassette has been
transferred onto a CD.

During the processing of the archival collection, it was arranged in five series,
based on the major topics observed in the collection, as well as format. Basic
preservation actions were also undertaken at this time.

Some items were removed from the collection to appropriate areas of the Leo Baeck
Institute's collections. For further details, see Separated
Material.

Although the collection did not have evidence of original order, numerous notes
by Marlies Wolf Plotnik were located throughout the collection, including on the
collection's papers. These notes provide details on family members, topics, or
individuals, thereby indicating the significance and context of individual items
and their connection to the family.

Arrangement:

Alphabetical.

Scope and Content:

Series I holds the papers of Hermann and Irene Wolf and their family. Many of
the documents pertain to the family's life in Germany, while others relate
to their emigration and later life in the United States.

Personal papers from the family's time in Germany include personal
correspondence, family documents, and educational, financial, and official
documents. Folder 1/4 includes family correspondence from several family
members, mostly conveying brief news or details of their lives. Folder 1/5
includes letters to Marlies from Lisbeth Lang, her former nanny
(Haustochter); the letters relate some memories of Marlies as a young girl.
The following folder holds letters of the related Opton family, relatives
who had emigrated to America at an earlier date and who sponsored Hermann
Wolf's family's immigration in 1938. Included are letters to Hermann Wolf
from his cousin Milton Opton as well as a letter from Ned Opton in 2007 to
Marlies Wolf with information on his father's papers, including a few
excerpts of Milton Opton's diaries. Other family papers include poetry in
folder 1/8, some of these poems are by Paul, Hermann, and Ella Wolf for
their grandmother Johanna Geissmar as well as a poem for Irene Wolf on her
sixtieth birthday.

Several folders hold papers of Hermann Wolf. Among these is one on Karl
Wilhelm Miller, who had a been a client Hermann Wolf assisted pro bono. Karl
Wilhelm Miller committed suicide and killed his wife and child in 1928, due
to being heavily in debt. Prior to his death he wrote a letter to Hermann
Wolf, thanking him for his legal help; the letter was forwarded to Hermann
Wolf by the police inspector and the folder includes a photo of the Miller
family. Folder 1/14 holds Hermann Wolf's educational documents, including
from his Gymnasium in Mainz and Alzey, as well as from the universities of
Giessen, Heidelberg, Munich, and Berlin. This folder also includes the 1908
document from the Ministry of Justice that admitted him to practice law.
Hermann Wolf had learned to drive in Germany prior to emigrating to the
United States, and folder 1/15 contains his driver's license. This folder
also holds an invitation to his wedding with Irene, among other documents.
Folder 1/16 includes a statement of respectability written for Hermann Wolf
by the mayor of Alzey, which Hermann Wolf carried with him during World War
I for identification. Related are several documents in folder 1/20,
including his military pass, a letter of recommendation for Irene
Oppenheimer from her time working in the finances department of the Adler
& Oppenheimer factory in Straßburg from August 1914-January 1915,
and a copy of the table songs (Tischlieder) that were performed at Irene and
Hermann Wolf's wedding. Folder 1/19 contains a few family photographs and
postcards.

Folders 1/1-1/3 focus on the Wolf family's emigration. Among these documents
is correspondence with the Cunard White Star line regarding the family's
passage across the Atlantic Ocean on the R.M.S. Queen
Mary. There are also related documents in folder 1/3 such as the
ship's passenger list and travel schedule. Folder ½ includes correspondence
with the American Consulate as well as lists of the family's possessions.
Folder 1/1 additionally holds a list of the family's jewelry. Documents on
financial matters pertaining to emigration are located in folder 1/9 and
1/10. Folder 1/9 includes documents about Jewish taxes and regulations
relating to Jews and foreign exchange, the family's loss of investments when
leaving Germany, correspondence with banks regarding the transfer of funds,
and a 1938 list of the family's expenses and income. Some letters in this
folder also relate to Paul Wolf's emigration, as he was then attending
school in England. Folder 1/10 includes lists of monthly expenses, receipts,
forms and documents regarding the registration of foreign securities.

Arrangement:

Alphabetical.

Scope and Content:

Series II contains the papers of Marlies (née Wolf), her husband Eugene
(called Gene) Plotnik, and their children. Nearly all of the documents in
this series are related to personal family life, and primarily consist of
correspondence between family members. Some professional and educational
papers of Marlies Plotnik are also included.

The bulk of papers in this series consist of the correspondence between
Eugene and Marlies Plotnik, located in folders 1/23-1/30. The majority of
these are love letters from Eugene to Marlies on birthdays and their wedding
anniversaries. In addition, folders 1/23-1/25 include his letters to her
prior to their marriage. Most are short, including some birthday telegrams,
and some are humorous. Notable in folder 1/23 is a letter in which Eugene
Plotnik re-introduced himself to Marlies very early in their relationship
and folder 1/25 includes their wedding invitation. Folder 1/30 holds
correspondence from a trip Eugene Plotnik took to Denver, Colorado in 1953
in order to investigate it as a potential relocation destination. His
letters primarily review his employment options, especially in the fields of
broadcasting and publishing. They also discuss the cost of living in Denver,
the differences in job seeking in Denver as compared to New York, and nearby
attractions. His letters lament the difficulty of breaking into television
without having anyone interested in taking a chance on him. Folder 1/31
holds a few letters to Marlies from her sons.

Other papers of this series focus on the personal papers of Marlies Plotnik.
Included is a book of stories made for Marlies by her former nanny
(Haustochter) Lisbeth Hake Lang sometime in the 1960s. The book tells
touching and memorable stories of the early years of Marlies and is
decorated with cutouts of photographs of her. The stories describe her
siblings' reception of her and one story from her infancy, as well as of the
family's Christmas celebration and humorous incidents from her childhood.
Accompanying the book is a 1927 birth announcement for Marlies. Folder 1/33
holds other material relating to her childhood, such as a poem for her
second birthday performed by her brother Paul, a program from a dance
recital when she was three that made the newspapers, a poem she wrote for
her parents' twenty-seventh anniversary, and a card with the actor Errol
Flynn's signature, among other materials such as family correspondence with
family news. Folder 1/22 contains a plan of the Central Park West apartment
that the Plotniks shared with the Wolfsons, including handwritten notes on
it.

A few folders pertain to Marlies Plotnik's education and profession. Folder
1/32 holds papers from Barnard College, including photographs and a program
of the college's 1946 Greek Games, a program for Marlies's graduation
ceremony, a booklet about senior week including the class roll, a letter
regarding a placement interview and her 1949 résumé. This folder also
contains a document, written at the time of her sixtieth reunion, that
reflects upon her years at Barnard, especially on her friendships and
activities. Folder 1/34 and the collection's oversized folder contains her
professional papers, such as a letter of recommendation and material
relating to her copywriting work after graduation.

Arrangement:

Divided into two subseries by branch of the family.

Scope and Content:

Series III contains the papers of the extended family members of the Wolf and
Oppenheimer families, including members of the Levintas, Geissmar, Opton,
and Menke families. The series is divided by branch of the family into two
subseries; both subseries contain family correspondence and papers, although
Subseries 1, which holds the papers of the Wolf side of the family, is far
larger. It additionally includes family members' official documents,
writings, articles about family members, and other materials.

Most prominent among the papers of this subseries are the parents and
siblings of both Hermann Wolf and Irene Wolf (née Oppenheimer). Hermann
Wolf's close family documented in Subseries 1 include his parents, Theodor
and Caecilie (née Levintas) Wolf, and his siblings, the physician Ella Wolf
and the lawyer Paul Wolf. Some papers of Irene Wolf's parents, Max and Mina
Oppenheimer, and sister, Hilde Menke, are included in the second subseries.
Both subseries also contain some papers of early generations of the
family.

This subseries is primarily in German and English,
with a very small amount in Hebrew.

0.6 linear feet.

Arrangement:

Alphabetical.

Scope and Content:

This subseries consists of papers of the Wolf and related Geissmar,
Levintas, and Marx family members. Included are their educational
papers, professional papers, articles and writings, correspondence, and
other papers.

The physician Ella Wolf, sister of Hermann Wolf, is one individual
well-represented among the papers of this subseries. Folder 1/39
includes her certificate for completion of Gymnasium studies (Zeugnis
der Reife), her admission to study medicine from the University of
Heidelberg, her 1909 medical license, and several letters of
recommendation from positions she held after her university studies.
Folder 2/3 includes a few of her medical writings, while folder 1/36
contains an article about her.

Paul Wolf, brother of Hermann Wolf, is another individual whose papers
are prominent in this subseries. Folder 2/4 holds his birth certificate,
a copy of his certificate for completion of Gymnasium studies (Zeugnis
der Reife), and certificates from the Ministry of Justice, including one
relating to receiving his license to practice law. This folder also
contains some postcards from Paul Wolf during World War I. The remainder
of Paul Wolf's educational documents are in folders 2/5 and 2/6,
documenting in more detail his studies and including documentation on
his legal studies at universities in Berlin, Darmstadt, and Heidelberg.
In folder 2/7 is a statement of respectability for him signed by the
mayor of Alzey, along with various notes on religion and Jewish holidays
from the late nineteenth century.

Several folders hold papers of Theodor and Caecilie (née Levintas) Wolf,
Hermann Wolf's parents. These include some of their educational and
official documents. Two folders contain their correspondence, including
correspondence from Caecilie to Theodor while they were engaged (folder
2/9). Folder 2/10 holds their marriage certificate, engagement
announcement, and a birth certificate for Theodor Wolf. Included with
these documents were two official documents of Rabbi David Geissmar,
Caecilie Wolf's maternal grandfather.

A second physician mentioned among these papers is Johanna Geissmar,
Hermann Wolf's second cousin once removed. Folder 1/45 holds material
about her, primarily information on books written about her, research
correspondence, and an article about her life in Saig, the Black Forest
town in which she resided. The preceding folder holds email
correspondence between Marlies Plotnik and the school that was renamed
in Johanna Geissmar's honor, including information on some of the
school's activities.

Other folders hold a few papers of various other family members, such as
David and Emma Marx, Jakob Wolf, the Opton and Levintas families, and
papers of unidentified family members.

Arrangement:

Scope and Content:

Subseries 2 holds some papers of the Oppenheimer family, primarily the
close relatives of Irene Wolf (née Oppenheimer). The subseries consists
of family correspondence and papers.

Folder 2/15 holds correspondence to Hermann and Irene Wolf from Irene's
sister, Hilde, and brother-in-law Helmut Menke in Jerusalem in 1939.
Their letters include many details of their lives in Jerusalem in 1939.
The couple worked in healthcare, at the Hadassah medical center, with
Helmut Menke having found a position as a physical therapist. In one
letter of August 17, Helmut mentioned how he had seen the situation of
the Jews in Germany as hopeless even in 1933. Some of Hilde's letters
discuss the difficulties of getting her mother to Palestine, and others
the difficulties of their own potential emigration to the United States.
Helmut's letters also briefly discuss his work and professional
relationship with his colleagues.

Two folders hold papers of Max and Mina Oppenheimer, Irene Wolf and Hilde
Menke's parents. Folder 2/17 includes newspaper clippings about
professional anniversaries and notable birthdays of Max Oppenheimer,
along with obituaries after his death. Folder 2/18 holds various papers
related to the family, such as a hotel receipt when Mina Oppenheimer
took Irene to boarding school in England, and a program from Irene
Oppenheimer's first piano recital.

Arrangement:

Scope and Content:

Series IV encompasses material related to the family history and memoirs of
family members, including information for family trees and on towns in which
family members resided.

Many of the folders in this series pertain to the history of the Wolf family,
whose ancestors were buried in Alzey. Folders 2/19, 2/24, and 2/30 include
information on the family graves and their later restoration in 2014;
material includes email correspondence about the restoration along with
sketches and photographs of the graves. Folder 2/24 additionally includes
official documents signed by Grand duke Ernst Ludwig naming Theodor Wolf
deputy mayor in 1890 and 1896, family trees, and lists of family members
with basic biographical data. Folder 2/30 also includes the text of a speech
given at Theodor Wolf's funeral service with biographical information on
him, including mention of his business as well as his municipal and
community positions. The folder also holds a copy of a certificate awarding
Ella Wolf a Wartime Cross of Service (Kriegsverdienstkreuz).

In addition to folder 2/24 several other folders in this series pertain to
the family genealogy. These include folder 2/23, which encompasses the
genealogical research of Fritz Wolf, who had run the leather company E. Wolfsöhne. The family trees in this folder
were accompanied by a copy of history on the Levintas family, a copy of
Hermann Wolf's birth certificate, and copies of documents regarding the
rescinding of Hermann Wolf's legal license in Germany in 1938. Folders 2/25
and 2/26 relate to the Geissmar (spelled alternately Geismar) family, with
correspondence and research on this branch of the family. Folder 2/25
additionally includes copies of photographs and documents of Geissmar family
members. Folder 2/26 contains the research of Werner Frank, who had traced
the family back to 1560; this folder also includes an article on an
unrelated Wolf and Regensburger families in addition to a tree of the
descendants of Jakob Geismar.

Three folders pertain to memoirs that were in the archival collection, but
have been removed to the LBI Memoir Collection. Copies were kept in the
archival collection of pages of memoirs with handwritten notes. Folder 2/22
held a self-published memoir of Clara Geissmar and now contains the
documents that accompanied the memoir. These include a few personal letters
of Clara Geissmar, copies of pages from the book Jewish Life in Germany in which she was mentioned, a newspaper
clipping about a Geissmar family descendant, and a brief family tree. Folder
2/28 pertains to the memoir by Marlies Wolf, and consists of some additional
pages related to this memoir along with photocopies of photographs. Folder
2/29 held the memoir of Alice Hochschild, cousin of Irene Wolf (née
Oppenheimer) and includes a family tree along with a newspaper clipping of
an article by Alice Hochschild's daughter, Hella Cheitlin, about the search
for Raymond Herman Geist, the American consular official who assisted in
Alice Hochschild's emigration. Folder 2/20 contains books and publications
that were removed from the archival collection to the LBI Library, with
copies of their bibliographic information retained in this folder. Notable
among these works is Berta Geismar's book Musik im
Schatten der Politik, a book about Darmstadt gifted to Marlies
Plotnik from her former nanny Lisbeth Lang, and an article about Johanna
Geissmar in Werner Frank's family newsletters.

Arrangement:

Alphabetical.

Scope and Content:

This series includes a large amount of family photographs, which provide
visual representation of both branches of the family over multiple
generations, their notable and celebratory events, family trips, and daily
lives. During the processing of the archival collection, the photographs
were organized by family and further subdivided by photograph type or
subject.

Photographs of the Hermann Wolf family include depictions of Hermann and
Irene Wolf, along with their children, friends, or family residences. Two
folders contain the many photographs of Marlies Wolf as a child. Photographs
include family occasions that feature Hermann and Irene Wolf, including at
their wedding and at their daughter Marlies's wedding in folder 2/31 and at
their engagement party in folder 2/32. Folder 2/36 shows the Wolf family
home in Alzey, the courthouse where Hermann Wolf worked, and the family's
home on Riverside Drive in Manhattan after their immigration. Several
photographs of Hermann Wolf as an officer in World War I will be found in
folder 2/37, most of which show him with other soldiers. Folder 2/38 focuses
on Marlies and Eugene Plotnik, including photos from their wedding day,
portraits both alone and together, and publicity photographs of Marlies
(taken by Eugene) for her Women @ Work
newspaper feature during the 1980s. Folder 2/34, which holds group
photographs of the Hermann and Irene Wolf family, includes a number of group
photographs of the family at Norderney beach (Lower Saxony, Germany) in the
1920s.

Several other folders hold photographs of Irene Wolf's family, the
Oppenheimers. Most of these consist of her parents, Max and Mina (née Adler)
Oppenheimer, along with Irene herself and her sister Hilde. Many of Max
Oppenheimer's photographs (folder 2/44) show him on vacation. Photographs of
Mina Oppenheimer include those in folder 2/41, which show her as a young
girl along with photographs of her nine siblings and parents, including
several of her mother, Rosa Adler. One group photograph shows all ten Adler
children together. Folder 2/45 contains photographs of the married Mina
Oppenheimer, including one of her as a volunteer during World War I and
several others from her later years in Berlin and New York. Photographs of
the entire Max and Mina Oppenheimer family are in folder 2/42 and feature
many photos of family members together, including at the beach in Norderney
and on skiing trips. This folder also includes a portrait photo of Max and
Mina Oppenheimer on their silver wedding anniversary.

The final folder of this series contains photographs of Theodor Wolf and
Caecilie Wolf, along with their children, Hermann, Paul, and Ella Wolf.
Included are photographs of Hermann Wolf as a student, childhood photos, and
a photocopy of a photograph of Caecilie Wolf from circa 1908-1910. Several
photos relate to a painting made from a photograph of Caecilie Wolf by the
artist "Bialla" (possibly Erich Colm-Bialla).